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The Relentless Now

Durational performance art is the kind of thing that makes most people want to check their phones after ninety seconds, and that’s precisely the fucking point. We live in a world built on the three-minute song, the fifteen-second clip, the swipe-left mentality. Everything’s pre-chewed, pre-digested, designed to go down easy. But then some lunatic decides […]

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The Relentless Now
Ai Weiwei @Large Alcatraz

Ai Weiwei @Large Alcatraz

Here’s a guy who couldn’t even show up to his own exhibit because the Chinese government had his passport. Think about that. They locked him down, kept him from leaving, and he responds by creating this massive installation about freedom and imprisonment in one of America’s most notorious prisons. That’s not just art. That’s a […]

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October 1, 2014 · Industries

Ray of Light Theater Yeast Nation

Ray of Light Theater Yeast Nation

Victoria Theater, San Francisco: Yeast Nation (the triumph of life) presented by Ray of Light Theatre

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The Art of Our Necessities

The Art of Our Necessities

Β  Collaboration: three people trying to figure out how to make Shakespeare’s storm feel real when the actual wind off the Pacific is already doing half the work. We’re not building a set. We’re negotiating with architecture that predates us and will outlast us, trying to figure out where bodies should stand, how voices will […]

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Rodeo Beach, Marin Headlands

Rodeo Beach, Marin Headlands

Out of the rolling ocean the crowd came a drop gently to me, Whispering, I love you, before long I die, I have travell’d a long way merely to look on you to touch you, For I could not die till I once look’d on you, For I fear’d I might afterward lose you. Now […]

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Andres Amador beach art: Middle Finger to Permanence

Andres Amador is out there on some windswept strip of beach, dragging a rake through wet sand like some deranged Zen monk, creating beach art, massive geometric mandalas, that would make the ancients weep. Two hours of work. Maybe three if he’s feeling ambitious. Intricate, precise, beautiful beyond any reasonable measure of beauty. And then… […]

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Andres Amador beach art: Middle Finger to Permanence
Rehearsing King Fool in a Graveyard

Rehearsing King Fool in a Graveyard

The cemetery was vanity transmogrified into stone. Instead of growing more sensible in death, the inhabitants of the cemetery were sillier than they had been in life. Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being Truth? About getting to the marrow of what Shakespeare actually meant? Then get your ass out of those antiseptic black box […]

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